Thursday, June 30, 2016

The Votives Project is a network of people from different
backgrounds who study, create or use votive offerings or other related
ways of communicating with the divine. It aims to facilitate dialogue
between academic disciplines, and between academics and religious
‘practitioners’, and in doing so to develop rich cross-cultural and
multi-period understandings of votive material and contexts.

If you would like to join the Project and/or contribute an article to
our blog, please don’t hesitate to contact us by filling in the form
below, or by writing to us at the addresses on our Open University
webpages (links via our names below). You can also share your photos and
ideas on our new Facebook page.

Welcome to the Theoi Project, a site exploring Greek mythology and the
gods in classical literature and art. The aim of the project is to
provide a comprehensive, free reference guide to the gods (theoi), spirits (daimones), fabulous creatures (theres) and heroes of ancient Greek mythology and religion.

The site now contains more than 1,500 pages profiling the Greek gods and
other characters from Greek mythology and 1,200 full sized pictures.

Wednesday, June 29, 2016

The "manel" (= all male panel) is a prevalent occurence within the field of ancient history.
In order to combat this, BAM set up a crowd-sourced .csv file so that a list of women in the field could be
compiled and subsequently kept updated through the years. This list has no one author, but is rather a product of
over 100+ women and men who took the time to contribute. The map, network analysis, and interface was then built
by Ryan Horne, lead developer at BAM. We hope that you use it to reach out to a female ancient historian in order
to write a review, to be on a panel, to write an article, or just to read her work.

Tuesday, June 28, 2016

In Biblical Faith and Natural Theology,
based on his 1991 Gifford Lectures at the University of Edinburgh,
James Barr argues that the Bible not only endorses elements of natural
theology, but also is heavily dependent on natural theology both in its
composition and for its responsible interpretation. Interacting
throughout with the influential views of Karl Barth, Barr thus offers a
devastating critique of the notion that natural theology is at odds with
biblical theology.

Recent additions to the corpus

The present tablet, copied by [Iqīšāya son of Ištar-šumu-ēreš], of the Ekurzakir family, is according to its rubric a ṣâtu-commentary on a tablet whose incipit is šumma amēlu ana sinništīšu libbašu inaššīšū-ma, “If a man has desire f

This small landscape-oriented tablet from Assur contains commentarial notes on two lines of the incantation Marduk’s Address to the Demons, a line of an incantation so far attested only in Muššu’u, and a line of Udugḫul III.

Issue 23: June 2015

Editorial

This special issue of BMSAES is dedicated to the
recently retired papyrus conservator Bridget Leach. In tribute to a
career of exceptional scope and impact, the current BMSAES
issue presents recent research in Egyptology, papyrology and
conservation by twelve scholars who worked closely with Bridget in
the past. Given her professional focus on Egyptian and Sudanese
artefacts from the British Museum, discussions of objects that she
conserved, most notably but not exclusively papyri, comprise the
lion’s share of this issue. This is complemented by contributions
from conservation specialists in charge of renowned papyrus
collections internationally.Ilona Regulski

My name is Carole and I live in Frankfurt am Main, Germany. My
favourite hobby is travelling and for the last 9 years I have taken a
huge interest in the history of the ancient world. I usually don’t do
things by halves, so I have dedicated all my free time to this passion. I
love to share with other history fans all the incredible facts and
stories that I discover throughout my journeys. I am neither a
professional photographer nor an ancient history scholar, but I hope
that everybody can enjoy my photos.

I am particularly interested in everything related to the emperor
Hadrian whom I find fascinating. He was himself an incessant traveller,
visiting every province in the Empire during his reign. When I am
looking for new ideas for my travels I usually take inspiration from his
journeys and it is a great motivation for me to follow him in his
footsteps.

Four years ago I started my blog Following Hadrian
to tell the stories behind my photographs. As I cannot write specific
articles about each of the places I have visited, I decided to create
this new website to share more images of the great archaeological sites
and museums I have been lucky to visit.

Welcome to the Index of Christian Art website. Founded in 1917 by
Charles Rufus Morey, “The Index,” as it is often called, has evolved
over the past near-century from a modest collection of painstakingly
catalogued photographs into one of the most important archives of
medieval art in existence. Both our physical collection of print records
and images on the Princeton University campus and our expanding online database
offer critically important resources for scholars of medieval visual
culture. We encourage you to browse our site and to consult with our
research staff to learn more about how the Index can serve your
interests.

The primary focus of the project is notice and comment on open access material relating to the ancient world, but I will also include other kinds of networked information as it comes available.

The ancient world is conceived here as it is at the Institute for the Study of the Ancient World at New York University, my academic home at the time AWOL was launched. That is, from the Pillars of Hercules to the Pacific, from the beginnings of human habitation to the late antique / early Islamic period.

AWOL is the successor to Abzu, a guide to networked open access data relevant to the study and public presentation of the Ancient Near East and the Ancient Mediterranean world, founded at the Oriental Institute, University of Chicago in 1994. Together they represent the longest sustained effort to map the development of open digital scholarship in any discipline.